Dr. Sarah Rebecca Strömel is an Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a. Z.) at the University of Regensburg and Senior Research Associate with the Digital Speech Lab at UCL. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher at Columbia University in New York City. Prior to this she held a visiting professorship at the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires.

Sarah’s research interests include theories of democracy, contemporary political thought, public debate culture and digitalisation as well as the life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville. Her first book, (PhD thesis), examined individualism in Tocqueville’s theory of democracy. In her second book, (Habilitationsschrift), she examines the different perspectives of democratic theories on public debate culture, with a particular focus on the digital public sphere. She is currently writing about deliberative and agonistic theories of democracy and their assessments of deplatforming and transparency as strategies for regulating debate, as well as about the influence of hate speech and deepfakes on public debate culture.

Sarah is Managing Director and a member of the Executive Board of the German Society for the Study of Political Thought (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Politischen Denkens, DGEPD) and Co-Editor of the "Jahrbuch Politisches Denken", a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. She has also co-edited several German- and English-language handbooks and special issues on a range of topics. Her research was pubished in different interdisciplinary journals, such as The Review of Politics, The Tocqueville Review, Global Media Journal, Latin American Human Rights Studies, Zeitschrift für Politik und Politische Vierteljahresschrift.